Letters, January-May 1913

(ca. 67 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: Roxana Abbott; S.M. Abbott; Joshua L. Bailey; Sherman Coolidge; Isaac and Laura M. Frazier; M. Friedman; J.A. Griffitts; Robert D. Hall; Abigail C. Haworth; George N. Hartley; C.F. Hauke; N. May Haworth; William P. Haworth; Hubert C. Herring; L. Clarkson Hinshaw; George Innes; Rayner W. Kelsey; J.E. McAfee; Charles S. MacFarland; Thomas C. Moffett; W.K. Moorhead; S.C. Nicholson; Harvey C. Olin; Eugenia H. Parker; Jonathan M. Steere; Cornelia Taber; Elizabeth Test; Robert G. Valentine; Herbert Welsh; Charles L. White; Miles White; Carolena M. Wood

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of William P. Haworth; vacancy at Wyandotte mission, Isaac and Laura Frazier taking that place; letters from the Home Mission Council; Rayner W. Kelsey working on his book "Friends and the Indians"; letters from representatives of the Y.M.C.A. re: Chilocco Indian School; William P. and Abigail C. Haworth resigning from their positions as superintendents; M. Friedman wishes to be appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs; possible successors for the Haworths; Kate Barnard (of Okla. Dept. of Charities and Corrections) is interested in the Skiatook property as a possible farm for the after-care of incarcerated people; requests for help from Assoc. Ex. Com. for Native Americans in California (letter of Cornelia Taber, 4.2.1913); letters from the United Missionary Campaign; letters from the Society of American Indians; sale of Hillside property to S.A. Abbott also letters addressed to: Hetty B. Garrett, from: William Demerest re: Home Mission Council; Pliny Fry re: can't attend meeting of Assoc. Ex. Com. William P. Haworth, from: Ivey C. Clark re: wants moving expenses paid by committee; Kate Barnard re: Skiatook property Secretary of the Interior, from: Lewis C. Lavlin re: patents in fee for Friends Mission Society (typed copy) Walter Smedley, from: E.M. Wistar